Families purchase the core SOFE household platform once. Specialized services such as Sprout perform ongoing monitoring, processing, communication, and coordination, and can renew separately.
Your lifetime SOFE household license includes everything your family needs to stay organized, day to day — owned once, not rented.
The shared home for your family's people, memory, and history.
Your general family assistant — memory, reminders, lists, and questions across your household.
Details, preferences, and information your family will need again.
Groceries, packing lists, household tasks, and things that need follow-through.
One-time reminders, recurring responsibilities, and seasonal tasks.
Documents and information your family keeps on hand.
Information stays connected instead of living in one person's inbox or head.
Export or delete your family's information at any time.
Ongoing improvements to the household platform, included.
Some capabilities require continuous, active work on your family's behalf — not just software you already own. Sprout, your child's school and learning specialist, is the current example.
Sprout keeps watching the approved sources you choose, for as long as the service is active.
Incoming school communications are turned into forms, deadlines, events, and tasks.
Weekly school and learning summaries, plus reminders before something is due.
An ongoing picture of what each child is learning, working on, and interested in.
Your subscription funds the ongoing work — messaging and notification delivery, and service support — that keeps Sprout current for your family.
If Sprout isn't renewed after its included period, here's exactly what changes — and what doesn't.
SOFE is the household platform your family owns for life. Sprout is the ongoing service that specializes in children, school, learning, and activities. Otis is your general family assistant — included with your SOFE license — for memory, reminders, lists, and questions across the rest of household life.
Your household workspace, Otis, family memory, lists and tasks, reminders and routines, household records, shared context, data export and deletion, and ongoing core platform improvements — all included for as long as you use SOFE, with no subscription required.
Sprout performs continuous, active work — watching approved sources, processing new messages, and generating new summaries — for as long as the service runs. That ongoing work is what a Sprout subscription funds. Your SOFE platform, by contrast, is software you already own.
Ongoing processing and proactive summaries stop. The family information and school history Sprout already saved into your SOFE workspace remain available to you, and you can renew the service later.
No. Reasonable service capacity is included in the SOFE and Sprout founding offer, and the core paid service works without buying separate AI credits.
The Founding Family offer includes a 30-day money-back guarantee. You can export or delete your family's information at any time.
The SOFE Stewardship framework includes documented continuity practices and data portability. Your data stays yours.
Your lifetime SOFE entitlement transfers with the service. Any successor that continues to operate SOFE, or a substantially similar successor service, must honor your active lifetime access at the access level originally granted. Specialized ongoing services and separately offered products remain subject to their own terms.